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Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp March 15Beware the Ides of March!
Students discuss and categorize superstitions, define a superstition, and compare the similarities and difference between proverbs and superstitions.

Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp March 30Black Beauty author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
Through Sewell's novel, students explore the cruelty to animals and extend the discussion to current events, eventually presenting the information.

Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp March 24Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
Students are introduced to the characteristics of drama, read a chapter from a novel the class has read, and create a script from the chapter that they will present to the class.

Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp March 26Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
Students celebrate Frost's birthday by exploring his innovation in the sonnet form by studying poems and presenting them to the class.

Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp March 5Today is Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday.
Students revive elements of the oral tradition by writing about something funny that happened to them recently, sharing with classmates, and discussing the changes that occur during the retelling of the stories.